If it wasn't for its brand name, google would be unable to hire L4s in India.
Their SDE2 salary is the lowest among all companies and startups (except maybe Microsoft). And yet pichai and team are bent on destroying the brand name.
Makes sense, since they are moving jobs to India to cut costs primarily. Why did you expect differently
That TC is also a dream for many
Work for google, take promo and move out. Opens lot of doors
Which all publicly traded companies pay better than Google for sde2? Equity given by startups should only be treated as paper money
Uber, Salesforce. Were you living under a rock?
Lmfao, Salesforce MTS isn't paying better than google L4 Uber can pay better, but it's a trade-off b/w wlb and money
What is max for L4? And min yoe for L5
Employers model their pay scales based on the following factor. 1. For laterial hires, the bare minimum they need to pay to convince the lateral hires to jump ships. Given the hype Googler's have created about their work culture, free food, fancy office perks, lateral hires get convinced to have that brand and comfort in exchange of the pay cut. This will eventually dilute as Google is gradually becoming a shit tier company given the current product vision and work environment. 2. For internal employees, Google understands that most of their employees have 0 transferrable skills to land on a job outside in this tough market and no matter how much they whine publicly on Blind, they will still take that pay and deliver their work to avoid getting PIPed. Both the aspects work quite well for them no matter how low they pay compared to the industry.
Heart wrenching take, but true nonetheless. Golden handcuffs ? More like a prison.
It's true. Companies like PayPal, oracle, are easily beating Google L4 with their SDE 2 offers by a good margin. Pre-covid, their SDE2 couldn't even beat Google L3
It's all relative. The grass on the other side is always greener